The Mystery Knight — Dunk X
Egg's boot yields Maekar's signet; Dunk spends its weight to buy Ser Glendon a knight's chance: trial by joust against the black dragon himself, the egg-theft charge to stand or fall with the tilt.
The chapter retold
Cornered, Dunk spends the one coin he has that outweighs a castle full of traitors: Egg's boot yields Prince Maekar's signet ring, and Dunk uses its weight to buy Ser Glendon Ball a knight's chance — a trial by joust against the black dragon himself, the egg-theft charge to stand or fall on the outcome of a single course. The chapter is Dunk's Ashford instinct refined into strategy: unable to fight a rebellion outright, he stakes an innocent man's life and a prince's secret on lances, betting that Fireball's son can do to a pretender what no accusation ever could.
This movement: The Black Dragon and the White
- The Fiddler unmasked: Daemon the Second of House Blackfyre, come to hatch a dragon and a rebellion in the same marble hall.
- Egg's boot yields Maekar's signet ring, and Dunk spends its weight to buy Glendon Ball a knight's answer: trial by joust against the pretender himself.
- Fireball's son puts the black dragon in the dirt in a single course — and dawn shows Bloodraven's host ringed around Whitewalls.
- The Second Blackfyre Rebellion ends without a battle: Daemon taken, the wedding lords fined to the bone, Black Tom Heddle dead on Dunk's sword, and Whitewalls condemned to come down stone by stone.